Don’t want to brag or anything but a painting of a local bridge on the Vedder River sold in the Chilliwack’s Fine Art and Framing shop last week!
Painted in 2007:
I accompanied my Dad to Prince George last week to look at our property or Reid street. He runs a business doing lease-to-own and this one’s on the market now!
Here’s his website http://easybuyhomes.ca
Even taking photos of a vacant property can be fun and creative! Check out the colours in this place! http://evaluyzer.com/Reid/
A fun and quicky – from the vedder river trail just east of the ol’ Vedder Bridge. Painted in photoshop!
Yes Indeed! Saturday night was a huge success. This little art studio (221 A Artist Run Studio East Georgia St.) held about 20 of us as Brennan Massicotte talked; it was low key, intimate and frickin awesome!
Brennan, being a seasoned duder from United Front Games hooked up some wonderful advice for us learning artists. His area of focus is total concept art. Concept, idea and function design – highest priority!
My favorite part of the conversation was his talk on Input VS Output. He reminded us of how amazing people can render (noodle away) at Concept Art.org or Deviant Art yet the final product begs the question why? What’s the function, story, or significance? Does it matter if this design exists or not? Indeed, this contrasting concept became clear as I redress my work towards high objectives while continuing related studies.
Personally an area for me to focus is considering a clear (not vivid) vision of what my created universes look like. Outlining the consistent limits and strengths of a design before beginning makes a lot of sense now.
Remember, “how cool” is always secondary to “the right idea”.
Talking with the local artists readdressed my process as we shared and compared. I now see the different benefits and usages for going straight-ahead-painting vs design line drawing. Sweet.
And by far, Brennan enlightened us more than most artists with his attention to study. Image making has its place in process awareness but Brennan reminded us all to look not at “the image” but what is that you’re looking at? Is it a green truck shape with a blue background or 4 wheels attached by suspension, drive train, engine etc and can you draw this? That’s exciting! To successfully rotate a design visually is where it’s at.
Anyways, to further my rant of awesomeness, I took his words to heart on an immediate study in which I found a great statue shot on corbis.com and did a quick sketch for acquainting myself. After, I imagined what the backside of the statue was and painted it. The creative design goodness continues!
http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art
What’s really good is the Lineage II gallery:
http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art/lineage_2/
In a conversation with Artists, Picasso touched on how our original vision affects the final paint’s result:
It would be very interesting to record photographically, not the stages of a painting, but its metamorphoses. One would see perhaps by what course a mind finds its way toward the crystallization of its dream. But what is really very serious is to see that the pictures does not change basically, that the initial vision remains almost intact in spite of appearance.
Neato!
Neat stumps I found hiking up to the ol’ Mt Thom lookout in Chilliwack, British Columbia – a five minute drive from home!
Abandoned US Customs, SanFran Airport (now destroyed). Why? To bring an old place to life!
Here it is folks, a quick staircase study – inspired by the randomly urban decay photography found present these days.
All in the name of knowledge….
I saw this gentleman whilst driving home a sunset ago:
He was wearing a white dress shirt, classy shoes, suspenders and mowing while smoking. The glare from his glossed hair was nearly blinding…
An old time favorite of mine. Here I explain how I arrived at the visual solution for an Alien Finding a Baby in an Alley. Thanks for that one Iain!
[flashvideo file=”http://mattvogt.com/media/alienAliProcess.flv” /]ps: thanks to Tim Simpson for commenting on the fact that I said ark-way instead of archway.
Thanks buddy…..
Sketch:
Value Placement:
In Living Colour:
Final Composition:
Any questions let me know via commenting!
Oi! A simple test of animation principles and a crash course in keying (animating) effects in AfterEffects! Great success yet again Matthew!
It is time! Reading Kahlil Gibran’s JESUS, The Son of Man inspired me to paint these. The book is split into around 64 chapters highlighting, in their own words, what people back then observered around Jesus. The sweet thing is that the visual adjectives weren’t too apparent allowing my creative visualizations to run like crazy!! Please enjoy! Just adding to the Biblical Art movement – more to come.
I just destroyed my wordpress blog (http://mattvogt.com/blog) and started afresh with a new wordpress install and re-imported my posts. Like my life, I’m simplifying things – back in the hay-day’s of 2005 I really pimped this place and customized a ton; now, I arm-chair it by using the chill standards allowing more flow for me! Yes.
At this current time I will listen to this awesome dude’s advice (thanks Charlotte!) and implement such goodness:
Done with a massive mirror – this studio setup was the best idea ever.
Done with mirror:
And minor update afterwards:
The in between paintings that better see the light of day (i think)…. just random incompletes hinting at the craziness found in creative fun!
